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Admiralty
noun · 78% connection
The court which has jurisdiction of maritime questions and offenses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, maritime, grasses, sand-reed.
Agistment
noun · 78% connection
A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, maritime, grasses, sand-reed.
Agrostis
noun · 78% connection
A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, maritime, grasses, sand-reed.
Appellative
noun · 78% connection
A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, maritime, grasses, sand-reed.
Archil
noun · 78% connection
A violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape V…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, maritime, grasses, sand-reed.
Arenaceous
adjective · 78% connection
Sandy or consisting largely of sand; of the nature of sand; easily disintegrating into sand; friable; as, arenaceous limestone.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, maritime, grasses, sand-reed.
Arrowroot
noun · 78% connection
A west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. M. arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. It said that the Indians used the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, maritime, grasses, sand-reed.
Arundinaceous
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to a reed; resembling the reed or cane.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, maritime, grasses, sand-reed.
Avena
noun · 78% connection
A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, maritime, grasses, sand-reed.
Bind
verb · 78% connection
To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, maritime, grasses, sand-reed.
Chain
verb · 78% connection
To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, maritime, grasses, sand-reed.
Clarinet
noun · 78% connection
A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrum…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, maritime, grasses, sand-reed.
Consolato del mare
unknown · 78% connection
A collection of maritime laws of disputed origin, supposed to have been first published at Barcelona early in the 14th century. It has…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, maritime, grasses, sand-reed.
Epoch
noun · 78% connection
A period of time, longer or shorter, remarkable for events of great subsequent influence; a memorable period; as, the epoch of maritim…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, maritime, grasses, sand-reed.
Geneva
noun · 78% connection
A strongly alcoholic liquor, flavored with juniper berries; -- made in Holland; Holland gin; Hollands.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, maritime, grasses, sand-reed.
Gin
noun · 78% connection
A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, maritime, grasses, sand-reed.
Grama grass
unknown · 78% connection
The name of several kinds of pasture grasses found in the Western United States, esp. the Bouteloua oligostachya.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, maritime, grasses, sand-reed.
Hard grass
unknown · 78% connection
A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the species of Aegilops, from one of which i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, several, maritime, grasses, sand-reed.
